A navy spokesman said all the weapons had been removed from the
Yekaterinburg nuclear submarine, which launched a ballistic missile from
the Barents Sea as recently as July, before repair work started,
Interfax news agency reported.

The Defence Ministry said the nuclear reactor had been shut down.

The fire is believed to have started when wooden scaffolding caught
fire during repairs to the K-84 submarine, which some Russian news
agencies said had been hoisted into a dry dock.